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EDUCATION

Public funding for schools associated with
Church of Scientology revealed(Sydney Morning Herald) July 13 - Schools associated with the Church of Scientology are receiving more
government funding per student than hundreds of Australian public schools, new
data has revealed, despite benefiting from generous private donations and
hundreds of thousands of dollars in school fees.

Religious
Violence

Islamic State readies for fall of
'caliphate'(Sydney Morning
Herald) July 14 - Even as it launches waves of terrorist attacks around the globe, the
Islamic State is quietly preparing its followers for the eventual collapse of
the caliphate it proclaimed with great fanfare two years ago.

Nice attack: There's little leaders can do
about the carnage(Sydney Morning Herald) July 15 – (Opinion: Paul McGeough ) Washington: It won't be a surprise if the
so-called Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack in Nice – but on
the evidence available so far, it seems to have been one man living locally and
acting alone, suggestive of self-radicalisation, not an attack managed and
directed by IS.

Nice attack: Could it happen here?(Sydney Morning Herald) July 15 - Not an elaborate homemade bomb or a machine-gun rampage - the wicked
gift of terrorism now is to turn the everyday instruments of modern society
into tools of horror.

POLITICS

Hanson tells PM she ‘won’t back down’ on
Islam (news.com.au) July 16 - QUEENSLAND senator-elect Pauline Hanson has told Malcolm Turnbull she
refuses to back down on her controversial Islam policies during a private phone
call with the prime minister.